New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-11
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
TIE urss1.Ns WITH BURGOYNE.

THE HESSlANS Win
JorypNAi OF CAPTAIN PAUsCH. Chief OF the hnns sS
Artillery during the nursoyne c1 sTss rntrodncsen
and annotated By W1Ll small Il 4to' DID, VI, 49, Al
bsny; Joel Munsells Sons.
GeorV Pausoh was captain OF a company OF ar
ti,lerv leased 30 kim George LII. by tho HeredI
tayv Prince of Hesse Cassel for service against the
American rebels and attached to Burgoyncs com
mand In the unfoi tunate expedition from Canaua
which resulted in the surrender at Saratoga The
Hereditary Prince, after hiring out his men The
and his family had been in the business for sew
ersl generations, was SO delighted with what he
called his "luck' that he wrote in English to the
Fail of Suffolk: my only wishes are that all
the officers and soldiers Of my regiment, now 10
His Majesty's orders, may be animated OF Vnc
Same respectful attachment and utmost zeal
shall ever bear for the king my generous pro,
tector and magnanimous support May 1he Gnu
they shall fight for answer to the KING "pl"i
contentment and your laudable endeaVors' MY
lord. be granted by the most happles1 ISSUE
pausch kept careful and often minute Iourh'u VI
all that passed on the way to America ana curing
his service there and dispatched IL by lhs'aimeh"
40 the Hereditary Prince. who, II he had no higher
concern for his soldiers, had at least a business
interest in their alton. BIS. copy OF tbs
iourpa, Mr. Stone SAWS the ori !inal Ms, but Mr.
Iowells introduction shows this to be mistaken
was found in the State Library at Cassel by MI
Lowell. It is not complete: there are breaks
here and there and IT stops short with the cereal
of Burgoyne near Saratoga. October Z, l777, when
led TO the capitulation few days later Ii gives.
however @ pretty fair outline OF the campaign
with many interesting particulars OF the organi-
ration of the army, the RELATIONSHIP always very
friendly-between the British and liessian troops
the condition Of the country and the pecula1ues
of the people and 1t will be OF use TO historians
in supplementing the previously known accounts
of the nav al engagement on Lake Champlain be-
tween Carleton and Arnold in October, 1875, and
the battles of saltwater and Saratoga the follow
ing year. With respect to oil these engagements
the details furnished by Pausch are full and Gu
rious and his narrative has certain ingenious
and individual flavor not at all common In such
military diaries. Mr.. Stone says In his preface
that sin regard to the naval action we are told
by Pausch that Arnold's heroism and that OF his
men made his conquerors afraid TO move forward
from Crown Point, or even to winter there. We
find no such statement in the Journal. and indeed
Pausch is extremely, perhaps decorously, sp'rln"
in his comments upon the operations and incidents
of the campaign But II the editor Is somewhat
inclined to exaggerate the importance OF the newly
discovered manuscript. he does not exaggerate ith
interest, and students will readily acknowledge
their Indebtedness to him for choice contribu-
ton to their shelves.
Inusch himself impresses the reader as brave.
honest, sincere man. who saw no dlscreoit IN
Aa hitting as q mercenary, never dreamed that IL
was his business to ask what he was fighting fOr
cared for one side as little as for the other, was
intensely loyal to his prince and took profess
sional pride in showing the Englishmen how well
the Hessian artilersts could serve their guns.
His company earned many compliments from inc
British officers, and seem TO have behaved well on
the feld though the captain docs not attempt 10
disguise that they were routed IN panic at sara
toga. They were well drllled but 1t may DC
doubted whether they had lion hearts when they
went aboard the transport which was to convey
them TO America. Pausch was Informed that they
would be expected to help serve the cannon ana
defend the ship if they attacked on the NOy-
acc. This warning he kept to himself, for re-
solved" he writes, "Only to tell my men what was
expected of them when the emergency should arise.
hoping by this course to keep them from becomn"
timid, and perhaps, as 1t might prove, without
reason.n What most impressed him in the Eng
lish soldiers was their size He found that he
could get clothing for the Hessians at three shil-
lines suit less than the English paid partly be-
cause the Hessians much smaller
l"Among the English artillerisis are the tallest
stron est and handsomest men in the world. In
the narrative Of the battle OF saltwater Pauschs
estimate Of the superior British animal is expressed
with grotesque smpli1,y. "Over thirty men
Of the Royal Artillery he writes ARE either
dead or wounded, among them not one under ten
inches d. e. five feet ten inches, all Of them fine
looking men. A number of them also died fell !?
on the field of battle who measured eleven TO
twelve inches. Some are still alive, others dead
But probably to a mind like that Of the Heredi-
tary Prince of IIesse Cassel the "vDresSiOn ten
inch soldier conveyed the most vivid Of scnsa-
tons.